Butler County Community College created $147.5 million in added income to Butler County's economy last year, according to according to Emsi, an Idaho research company that studied the school's economic impact.

That $147.5 million in added income represented 1.4 percent of Butler County's gross regional product.

“When you look at the number of employees, that is a buying pool, a taxpayer pool,” Stan Kosciuszko, president of the Butler County Chamber of Commerce, said in a news release. “You also look at that as a service industry. They purchase gasoline. They eat. They buy clothing. A lot of them live in Butler County. Just the employees' economic impact on Butler County is huge. If you just take that face value, without looking any further, that is a huge impact.”

Read more about BC3's local economic impact in Tuesday's Butler Eagle.